For you to try this month:

Watercolour:

• Paint flowers and seed heads with Karen Rice using wet-in-wet and wet-on-dry techniques
• Di Lorriman completes her lighthouse in part two of her painting project
• Practise your watercolours skills as you paint a pot of strawberries with Margaret Eggleton
• Kerry Bennett shows how to paint a pair of cats
• Learn to paint figures in a simple setting with Liron Yanconsky

Plus:

• How to make your paintings stand out from the crowd with Christine Pybus
• Colin Steed demonstrates an autumn woodland scene
• Take just three colours to paint a red fox with Michelle Campbell
• Jackie Garner explains the basic techniques for using acrylic inks
• Make every stroke count as you capture a scene in 40 brushmarks with Valėrie Pirlot 
• How to set up and paint a still life in oils with Richard Holland
• In her final article Amanda Cooper demonstrates how to paint winter landscapes
• Use a toned surface and mixed media to paint a portrait with Liz Chaderton
• Follow Tony Hogan's top tips on sketching your local scenery

And:

• Win an original watercolour painting by David Bellamy!
• Things to do this month
• Exhibitions
• Reviews of the latest practical art books
• Reader's letters
• Paintings from the PaintersOnline gallery

All this and more in the December issue of Leisure Painter - out on October 30